Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edward W. Howe
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales
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